Sometimes it takes a while for the real message to sink in.
That is certainly true about something I heard at a baseball clinic in Georgia a few weeks ago.
The speaker was discussing the challenge of playing the outfield. He said that even though there might be only one or two balls hit your way in [...]
What if you could spend a few minutes with some of the best executives in the world? What questions would you ask?
This article lets you spend that time. Take a few moments to see what advice these top leaders would give you if they had the chance. You don’t even have to get on the [...]
I’m back blogging after a grueling few days of putting the finishing touches on my book, “The Improvement Factor: How Winners Turn Practice into Success.”
The book finally got done because I’ve learned the same lesson that I preach in my Winner’s Workshops. You can’t try to do several projects at once. If you do, all [...]
An old sports writer friend once told a story about Moe Berg, a one-of-a-kind ballplayer who read 10 newspapers a day and happened to be an atomic spy for the United States.
Berg was a mediocre batter, but he did speak seven languages, prompting Dave Harris, an outfielder for the Washington Senators, to say, “Yeah, [...]
No matter who you pick in the upcoming NCAA tournaments, you can be sure of one thing: The winner will have to overcome adversity.
Injuries, bad calls and momentum swings will test the will of all teams, and the one that responds best will win.
It will take mental toughness to survive, which raises a key question. [...]
Count me out of March Madness.
I think of it as March Sadness.
People on Facebook have been asking me to join pools and fill out brackets when the time comes, but it’s very hard for me to get worked up over a system that is based on corruption.
Don’t get me wrong. I admire all the practice [...]
It’s said that power corrupts.
Well, it does worse than that.
According to a study reported in Forbes magazine, power can make you stupid. (No jokes about Washington, please.)
Four researchers, intrigued by issues like BP’s oil rig disaster, joined to learn whether overconfident people are drawn to power, or whether power itself creates their overconfidence.
Their answer should [...]
Former LSU baseball coach Skip Bertman once did a video called “Winning the Big One.” In it, Bertman spoke of the daily, constant, relentless effort to improve.
I’m not sure if Yankees Manager Joe Girardi has seen the video, but his drive to improve has brought a motivational gem to the clubhouse.
As related in this story [...]
“Think left, think right
and think low and think high
oh the things you can think
if only you try.”
The quotes comes from Dr. Seuss, was born on this date in 1904.
Dr. Seuss, whose real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel, has entertained generations of children (and adults) with nonsense rhymes that actually make a lot of sense. The [...]
Swamped with a book deadline, I won’t be writing much today or for the rest of the week. I’ll try to send something each day. My friend Carl McGown came through bigtime, sending this gem of a link on how well the NFL combine can predict how much success a college player will have in [...]